Sexiest Person Alive Zycantia

The Sexiest Person Alive competition of Zycantia is a semi-annual contest giving Zycantian fans the opportunity to vote for the most attractive person in the world, out of five to ten candidates as determined by contest officials. Only Zycantian residents are allowed to vote in the contest but the award can be awarded to a non-Zycantian. However, as of 2016, the award has only been awarded to Zycantians. The award is then presented to the winner in a different host city each year.

History
Edurne won the first edition of the contest and remains the only person to have won the contest more than twice, winning at least once in every year except 2009 and 2014 and finishing in the top three in every contest. She has a total of seven wins so far, including four in a row. Eric Saade was the first man to win the competition, doing so in 2010. Tooji is the only man to have won the contest more than once, winning once each in 2012 and 2013. Svetlana Loboda is the only other person to have won more than once, winning both 2009 contests.

Contestant Scandal 2008
In the very first edition of the contest, the website was hacked and the name of Bojana Stamenov, a relatively unknown plus-size model was added into the list by the hackers. Officials confirmed that Stamenov was not chosen by the organisers but would remain in the contest as voting had already commenced. Stamenov ultimately received over 20% of the vote and finished third in a field of seven, behind Edurne and Sirusho. The incident propelled Stamenov into the international spotlight, starting her journey to ultimately become the most famous plus-size model in the world. Stamenov followed up her success by releasing her hit song "Beauty Never Lies", which topped the charts in Zycantia and other countries around the world, including Arkaystia and Zvorrhybnnia.

Contestant Scandal 2009
In the second contest of 2009, famous whorehouse entrepreneur Shaniqua "Shaniqua Diva" Stevic was announced as one of the eight contestants. However, when the results were announced in Cascade Bay, Shaniqua Diva was found to be in breach of the rules, as contestants are not allowed to be involved in professional pornographic material. Shaniqua Diva was announced to have received over 75% of all votes cast, but all votes for her were declared null and void and she was disqualified. Svetlana Loboda was announced as the winner, successfully defending her title with 37.8% of all remaining votes. Shaniqua Diva caused a scene on the red carpet, resulting in the television broadcast being terminated as her use of foul language exceeded the limit allowed during the broadcasting timeslot, but not before Shaniqua Diva stripped out of her leather outfit and trotted down the runway naked, shouting profanities.

Voting Scandal 2014
The vote is only open to Zycantian residents. In the first 2014 contest however, there were allegations that Arkaystian residents used VPNs to hijack the vote and send an overwhelming number of votes for Natasha Bogdanova, a singer with dual Arkay-Zycant nationality. Bogdanova received almost 98% of all votes cast, roughly triple the usual winner's percentage. Contest officials confirmed that a large majority of the votes received were tracked back to Arkaystian computers. However, contest officials stated that the votes would not be discounted as they found no breach of the official contest guidelines. Organisers confirmed that runner-up RiskyKidd would have won the contest if all illegal Arkaystian votes were discounted and Bogdanova would have finished last out of five contestants. They amended the rules to ensure that only Zycantians would be eligible to vote in subsequent editions and illegal foreign votes would be discounted. Bogdanova placed third in the purely Zycantian vote in the following contest.